Colonel Thomas Peter Legh (1753-1797)
James Cranke the Younger (1746/48 - 1826)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1795
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
2413 x 1549 mm (95 x 61 in)
Order this imageCollection
Lyme, Cheshire
NT 500011
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Colonel Thomas Peter Legh (1753-1797) by James Cranke the Younger (1748-1826), 1795. A full-length portrait of a middle-aged man, facing, head slightly to the right, grey hair, pigtail and whiskers, wearing the uniform of the 3rd Lancashire Light Dragoons (blue jacket with frogging, beige breeches and boots to the knee; a sash across his chest with badge, a red sash at waist and hangar and sword). Standing, his right leg crossed over his left, with his right elbow resting on a stone wall/pillar on the left, on which rests a larger-than-life bearskin hat with yellow plumes and Prince of Wales feathers with the inscription 'LL ?' (probably LLD, 'Lancashire Light Dragoons'). His left arm bent, the hand resting on his hip, holding a handkerchief. On the left, a large tree behind the pillar, and to the bottom right corner a landscape of lake and trees. See also NNT 499954, NT 500019 and a version in the collection of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry Museum, Preston (LANOY.453). Payment is recorded in an account book (1 June 1795) to James Crank ('painter') 'for copying three whole lengths at Lyme' (£31.10.0).
Marks and inscriptions
On badge on helmet: LLD
Makers and roles
James Cranke the Younger (1746/48 - 1826), artist